[thelist] More Smart Tags

Canfield, Joel JCanfield at magisnetworks.com
Mon Jun 25 10:21:45 CDT 2001


I'm not saying Microsoft is right, or these other things are good (I'm
morally opposed to guns, I drink responsibly, and I don't steal music)

I prefer not to make moral judgements publicly, that's all. I suspect that
many large companies have done something illegal in the past, or may be
doing something illegal right now. I don't think I can do much to change
that except teach my children (or other students I may be able to gather)
the difference between right and wrong. I'm not out to moralize the
corporations of the world; I don't think it's possible.

If you're discussing closely held personal feelings, I agree wholeheartedly
with you. I'm so old (and straightlaced) that I make my children address
adults as 'sir' and 'maam' and don't allow them to use bad language (or use
it myself.) Yes, somebody has to take responsibility, but I'm responsible
for myself and my family, not for what Microsoft does. I'm not joining them,
I'm just choosing not to pass judgement on anyone but myself.

spinhead

-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Crockford [mailto:tonyc at boldfish.co.uk]
Sent: Monday, June 25, 2001 8:03 AM
To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
Subject: RE: [thelist] More Smart Tags



> Aren't we just retrying Napster here? [or handguns or alcohol
> or whatever
> your personal Satan is]
>
> The tool isn't evil because it's used for bad purposes. The
> tool creator
> isn't evil because it's possible to use the tool for bad purposes.
>
I'm glad I'm not at the beginning of my career, that's all.

If I'm reading this thread correctly, you're saying that because we
accept bad stuff already a little bit more bad stuff won't hurt?

A major player like Microsoft is behaving irresponsibly, and that's
okay?

How will the children know what intellectual property means?

How will they know the differece between what's mine and what's yours
and when they can just take it and when they shouldn't?

One day, you'll all be able to look back and see what happened here at
the beginning of the 21st century when we used "cry freedom!" to take it
away.

Computers make loads of stuff easy. When will a "hack the bank" button
bar be okay? IE7.0?

Somebody has to take responsibility, or am I just too damn old?





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